In London, police had their own suspicions. Sheila Buckley, Stonehouse's 28-year-old secretary and secret girlfriend, kept insisting to friends that he was dead, but she knew the real story ...

Sheila Buckley. Seeking escape, he devised an audacious plan: to fake his death and start anew. Drawing inspiration from the novel The Day of the Jackal, Stonehouse stole the identities of two ...

The MP had long been married to his wife Barbara Stonehouse, with whom he shared children. However, he had started up an affair with his secretary, 21 years his junior, Sheila Buckley. In his ...